The Master Metadata Directory

• The Big 10
• International Standards Bodies
• Australian Standards Bodies
• Other Standards Bodies

Recommended Metadata Standards

Most popular/widely adopted

• Dublin Core
• Dublin Core Terms

W3C Standards

• Simple Knowledge Organisation System (SKOS)

Based on the OAI harvesting initiative

• Best practices for OAI work
• Best schema candidates
• Partial crosswalk map for common metadata standards